The first calendar month of the Kings’ season is now in the books, and 11 games seems a fair total to evaluate, in terms of where the Kings stand in the league in some major statistical categories. This year’s totals/averages and rankings are in bold and, for comparison, last year’s full-season totals/averages and rankings follow, [...]

Some notes from last night’s game… – The Kings lost in regulation on the road for the first time this season, as they fell to the Colorado Avalanche 3-2 on Sunday night at Pepsi Center. – The Kings outshot the Avalanche 32-16, including 15-4 in the second period. The 16 shots were the fewest the [...]

One could certainly say that the Colorado Avalanche were due to win last night. They had dropped their first three home games of the season and hadn’t beaten the Kings at Pepsi Center in close to three years. The Avalanche spread it around, as they got an even-strength goal, a power-play goal and a shorthanded [...]

Here’s my LAKings.com game recap for tonight, with stats, video and pictures included. Thanks for reading… Avalanche 3, Kings 2 The Kings will not be on the ice tomorrow and are scheduled to return to practice Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at the Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo.

Terry Murray’s postgame thoughts… (on again scoring only two regulation goals…) MURRAY: “Well, I don’t think that was it tonight. The goals they got, they got a shorthanded goal. They got a real lucky bounce off the end boards. It’s hard to believe that the boards in the NHL would not be installed properly, in [...]

Jonathan Quick’s postgame thoughts… (on the bad-bounce goal…) QUICK: “It just took an unexpected bounce. It hit something and it jumped out. It was coming along the wall and I was just going to stop it and leave it. We were on the PK and I believe it was Scuderi who was coming in to [...]

Jarret Stoll’s postgame thoughts… (on needing more scoring…) STOLL: “We’ve got to try to generate more. We got a lot of shots blocked in the second half of the game tonight. Teams, everyone is blocking shots, everyone is getting in lanes. We’ve got to find a way to work harder and get pucks to the [...]

The first month of the season concludes with tonight’s game. Follow the action on Fox Sports West and on 1150-AM and affiliates, with all the pertinent game updates here as well… THIRD PERIOD In goal: It’s still Quick against Varlamov. Avalanche 3, Kings 2: Colorado took a 3-2 lead 1:52 into the third period. Matt [...]

Tonight is the first of four regular-season meetings this season between the Kings and Colorado Avalanche, and remember that it’s an early start ( 5 p.m. Pacific time). Watch out for the Avalanche. They’re hungry for a home win, after an 0-3-0 start, and they’re hungry to beat the Kings, who haven’t lost at Pepsi [...]

In terms of “shot mentality,’’ Terry Murray got what he wanted last night, as the Kings recorded a season-high 39 shots on goal. Of course, it only led to two goals, so the mission was not accomplished, and Murray pointed to one of his other favorite terms — net presence — to describe what the [...]

Tonight’s game is the first regular-season meeting between the Kings and Colorado Avalanche, but the teams did meet twice in the preseason. For what it’s worth, the games couldn’t have been much different. In the first, the Kings dominated the second and third periods and won 6-0. Three days later, in Las Vegas, the Kings [...]

Here’s the expanded update, from Terry Murray, on some of the pertinent issues in advance of tonight’s game against Colorado… (on the status of Simon Gagne’s “middle-body injury’’…) MURRAY: “I don’t know exactly where he’s at (with the injury), other than he won’t play. I got a text from Kinger [trainer Chris Kingsley] this morning. [...]

Some notes from last night’s game… – The Kings got a point on the road but lost 3-2 in overtime to the Phoenix Coyotes on Saturday night at Jobing.com Arena. – The Kings fell to 2-1 in games decided in the five-minute overtime period. – The Kings recorded a season-high 39 shots on goal, to [...]

Simon Gagne will not be able to play tonight, Terry Murray said, and the Kings will use the same lineup they used last night in Phoenix, including Jonathan Quick in goal. Murray indicated that Gagne is “better” but not ready to play. The Kings changed up three of their four lines in the third period [...]

One one hand, the Kings haven’t lost in regulation (4-0-1) in their last five games against the Coyotes. On the other hand, they’ve also won only four of the last seven meetings against the Coyotes. Here’s how The Arizona Republic covered last night’s game, with some additional postgame quotes from the Coyotes’ locker room… Langkow’s [...]

Thankfully the snow from earlier in the week has departed, leaving a cold, crisp, clear Sunday morning in Denver. There’s no morning skate today, not surprising given the back-to-back road games and the late night — did you know it takes 29 minutes, without traffic, to get from Denver’s airport to downtown? — but Terry [...]

Here’s my LAKings.com game recap for tonight, with stats, video and pictures included. Thanks for reading… Coyotes 3, Kings 2 (OT) The Kings will be back on the ice tomorrow at Colorado, at 5 p.m. (Pacific time)

Terry Murray’s postgame thoughts… (on the game…) 
MURRAY: “The forecheck was pretty good. Pretty good. We had our moments in the game where it was really good, and then at the end, though, we had problems getting out of our end. So you get into the third period, at a critical time, and there was [...]

Dustin Brown’s postgame thoughts… (on the more wide-open nature of the game…) BROWN: “I think we had a lot of good chances. We probably gave up more than we normally do. I don’t know how many shots we ended up with, but we had opportunities to win the game.’’

Jonathan Quick’s postgame thoughts… (on the deflection on the overtime goal…) QUICK: “It just found a way. It just snuck through. Especially at that point of the game, that’s something you want back.’’ (on the more wide-open nature of this game…) QUICK: “I guess you could say that. At the same time, both teams did [...]